Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1070 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Raphael Affair Subtitle: Art History Mysteries, Book 1 Author: Iain Pears Narrator: Ralph Cosham Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins Language: English Release date: 03-08-12 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 104 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense Publisher's Summary: Set in Rome,The Raphael Affairfeatures the perpetually beset General Bottando of the Italian National Art Theft Squad; his glamorous assistant, Flavia di Stefano; and Jonathan Argyll, a British art historian. When Jonathan is arrested for breaking into an obscure church in Rome, he claims that it contains a long-lost Raphael hidden under a painting by Mantini. The painting disappears - then reappears in the hands of the top British art dealer, Edward Byrnes. How has Byrnes found out about the hidden masterpiece, and whom is he acting for? There is also the curious matter of the safe deposit box full of sketches closely resembling features of the newly discovered painting. A hideous act of vandalism occurs, then murder. Bottando faces the most critical challenge of his career, and Jonathan and Flavia find themselves in unexpected danger. Critic Reviews: A clever thriller.Pears balances politics, love, and danger nicely in a plot that has a cunning and satisfactory outcome. (Sunday Times) Masterful and calls for an encore. (Houston Post) Presents a world the author knows well in the satisfying way Margaret Truman and Dick Francis set their mysteries in milieus they know. (Associated Press)
